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Flag Date Use Description 1790–1794: Flag of Kingdom of France and French First Republic: 14 July 1790: Revolutionist flag: 21 January 1793: Revolutionist flag: 7 May 1794: Revolutionist flag: Similar to the Pre-Communist Yugoslavia. 1814–1830: Royal flag of Kingdom of France: 1848: Flag of French Second Republic: 1940–1944: Flag of Free ...
The national flag of France (drapeau national de la France) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (), white, and red.The design was adopted after the French Revolution, whose revolutionaries were influenced by the horizontally striped red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands.
France: 1643 [citation needed] 1790 [citation needed] 1794 [6] 1814 1830 [7] 1940 1944 1958 1974 [8] 2020 [8] France: 1940 Gabon: 1903 1959 1960 Gabon: Gambia: 1783 1801 1965 Gambia: Georgia: 1008-1490 1801 1858 1883 1918 1921 1922 1937 1951 1990 2004 Georgia: Germany: 1400 1848 1867 1919 1933 1935 1946 1949 Germany: 1433 1949 1959 Ghana: 1821 ...
Since the white field was too royal for the taste of the revolution, on 27 pluviôse year II of the French Republican calendar (15 February 1794), the flag and the ensign were changed to the design of the current flag of France: three columns of equal width, of blue, white, and red. The same banner was again decreed to be the flag on 7 March 1848.
The convention's first act was to establish the French First Republic and officially strip the king of all political powers. Louis XVI, by then a private citizen bearing his family name of Capet, was subsequently put on trial for crimes of high treason starting in December 1792. On 16 January 1793 he was convicted, and on 21 January, he was ...
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On 2 August 1802 (14 Thermidor, X), a second national referendum was held, this time to confirm Bonaparte as "First Consul for Life". [5] Once again, a vote claimed 99.7% approval. [6] [7] As Bonaparte increased his power, he borrowed many techniques of the ancien régime in his new form of one-man government.
The 1791 red flag was the symbol of martial law and of order, not of insurrection. [2] Lamartine opposed popular aspirations, and in exchange of the maintaining of the tricolor flag, conceded the Republican motto of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, written on the flag, on which a red rosette was added. [2]